The M60 is the strongest firearm in terms of damage per bullet; the M60 takes down a police's helicopter within 36 rounds; whereas the Minigun, all handguns, all sub machine guns and all assault rifles need 176 rounds to take down one. Additionally, M60's bullets knock targets down just like shotguns and the Python, it can aim in first person just like assault rifles, unlike them it has a 100-round load, it has a long range accuracy, and it is the only Heavy Weapon which the player can both move to a normal walking pace and jump with it.

It appears in Vice City and Liberty City Stories as the M60E1. It is replaced by the M249 in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, The Ballad of Gay Tony (in the later, named "Advanced MG" and placed in the Assault Rifles slot instead of the Heavy Weapons slot), and in Grand Theft Auto V by the MG. Its bipod has been folded and the box magazine is not inserted. Instead, the bullet belt drapes off the gun.

Locations

GTA Vice City

Received at the mission Phnom Penh '86, when you are about to kill the remaining gang members inside the house.